The Book The Elements is the first volume of an ambitious series named Macrophotography. Since the 90s, the author Dušan Swalens has been experimenting with macrophotography and provoking the public towards a creative perception of photography. Over the last twenty years he has created several sets of photographs, which he has decided to introduce one by one not only in exhibitions, but also as a book. Because visual communication knows no language barriers, he wants to hit European and Asian markets with this first publication.

In the volume with the name The Elements the author selected four colections of photos with Kateřina Pešatová, the author of the accompanying texts, these refer to the basic elements recognized by almost all natural philosophical schools as the basis of the world: earth, fire, air and water. The basic elements also gave the name to the first volume of the planned cycle of Macrophotography.